[American Ghostshirt]

Ambassadors

Google Link	Affiliation
Jeffrey Davidow	Current ambassador to Mexico. Clinton's Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs under Warren Christopher. Author Bear and Porcupine, about US/Mexican relations.
[Willard] A.DePree	Ambassador to Bangladesh 1987-1990, and Mozambique as well. Possibly concerned about CIA operations involving drug production.
Charles Freeman Jr.	Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. July 15, 2003 Wall Street Journal article as one of five sponsors of the Committee for the Republic, a group organized to question our rush to "empire." Signed letter to President Bush asking him to reform his ME policy.
William Harrop	Former ambassador to Israel. Criticized Indyk's appointment to Israel. PSI board of directors. Article: 1st Line of Defense, cited for requesting improved port security.
Arthur Hartman	Former Reagan-appointed ambassador to Soviet Union. Appointed to France by Carter. Board of Trustees of Open Russia Foundation, founded by YUKOS oil. LaRouche notes. ORF linked to Soros.
H. Allen Holmes	Clinton assistant scty. Defense. CFR roster. Comments in 1997 report on WMD/terror to HCNS. Joined foreign service in 1958. Served under Reagan in a variety of capacities.
Samuel Lewis	Clinton appointee to head State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Involved with peace negotiations with Israel and Egypt under Carter. Ambassador to Israel at that time.
Princeton Lyman	Former ambassador to Nigeria and S. Africa. Proponent of AIDS aid to Africa. Comments on Sahel before CIRHR. CFR affiliate.
Jack Matlock Jr.	Book: Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. Reagan's ambassador the U.S.S.R. Claims he was called back to negotiate with the Ruskies. Former director of Soviet affairs at the NSC. Book: Autopsy of an Empire (Soviet).
Donald McHenry	U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979 until January 1981. Author Micronesia: Trust Betrayed. Trustee, Inst. Intl. Ed. Trustee, American Assembly.
Richard W. Murphy	Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. CFR affiliate. Former chairman, MEI. Blasted for being pro-Saudi in by NR's Dreher. Criticized by Daniel Pipes.
David Newsom	Foreign service included Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Indonesia, Iran and the Philippines. CS Monitor Article: Is the US Ready for Democracy?  Book:The Imperial Mantle: The US, Decolonization & the 3rd World."
Phyllis E. Oakley	Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Clinton; 1998 comments to Senate on security, including Iraq. Now at the State Department: Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
John Reinhardt	First USIA (formerly USICA) director, appointed by Carter1978. Newhour interview: Winning Hearts & Minds.
Ronald I. Spiers	Ambassador to the Bahamas 1973 for one year. Reagan's ambassador to Pakistan, 1981. Also served as ambassador to Turkey. Foreign affairs analyst with the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Currently Undersecretary of State for Management.
Nicholas A. Veliotes	Deputy Chief of Mission in Tel Aviv, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (1977-78).  Ambassador to Jordan (1978-81); Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (1981-84).  Ambassador to Egypt until 1986, nominated by Reagan. President of the Association of American Publishers in May, 1986. Member of the Middle East Institute, the CFR and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. CNN Interview: Egypt Limits Diplomatic Contacts with Israel.
Alexander F. Watson	Director, Nature Conservancy's Latin America division after 30 years of Foreign Service duty in mostly South and Central America. CFR member.

Military Leadership

	Affiliation
Rear Adm. William Crowe	Former Reagan joint chief of staff chairman. Ambassador to UK. Submarine officer. Book on military politics during the Iran-Iraq war: Line of Fire. LoF is on a Pentagon course reading list, and quoted here. Stanford alumnus.
Gen. Joseph Hoar	U.S. Marine Corps Chief of Staff of operations during the 1991 Gulf War. Quote on Iraq:  "We are looking into the abyss." LaRouche note.
Adm. Stansfield Turner.	Former CIA director under Carter. Rhodes scholar! Advisory board, GlobalSecure Holdings. "Infighting hurting CIA." Injured in 2000 plane crash. CNBC interview on Iraq war.

[SJackson]

Thanks, good reference.

More interesting I suspect would be their current employment. I'd guess a significant number are "consultants" or "think tankers", with foreign nations well represented.

[Fedora]

Thanks for that post--nice job. On Stansfield Turner I'd add that he represents a liberal faction of the intelligence community that was opposed to James Angleton, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush--he came on as CIA Director after President Carter replaced Bush and in that capacity he oversaw the emasculation of the CIA that had begun with the Church Committee. Here's some good comments on Turner from Ray Wannall, who worked in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover for several decades:

Undermining Counterintelligence Capability

A comparable de-emphasis on Communist matters took place in the CIA. In 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner as the new Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). He soon dismissed several hundred of the Agency's experts on Communism. Turner, in his memoirs, justified the reduction in staff by pointing to a previous study, conducted in mid-1976 under DCI, later President, George H. W. Bush, which recommended the abolition of 1,350 positions in the Agency's espionage branch. Turner claimed that, of the final total of 820 positions vacated largely by attrition, only 17 people were actually dismissed, while 147 took an early forced retirement. But the CIA has never fully recovered from the Turner-era reductions in this critical area.

Former President Bush has likewise made comments tracing the CIA's current problems to this period.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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[JesseJane]

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